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House approves Homeland Security funding in 257-167 voteTue, 03 Mar 2015 15:31:36 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=77f_1425414498
dcmfoxBy Scott Wong , Rebecca Shabad and Cristina Marcos - 03/03/15 03:16 PM EST
The House voted Tuesday to fund the Department of Homeland Security, ending a months-long impasse over President Obama's immigration policies and averting a weekend shutdown at the agency.
The vote highlighted the rift in the GOP over the measure, as all of the 167 no votes came from Republicans - more than twice as many as the 75 who supported the bill. It cleared the House on a 257-167 vote only because of the unanimous support of the House's Democrats.
The vote allows Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to finally turn the page on an ugly chapter in his leadership that consumed the opening months of the new Republican-controlled Congress.
The $40 billion spending bill keeps DHS funded through the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, but is stripped of GOP-favored provisions aimed at halting Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration. The so-called "clean" funding bill had passed the Senate earlier; it now goes to Obama, who has already vowed to sign it.
Supporters cheered the move, saying it would finally let the GOP move on to its agenda.
"I've said all along we need to govern responsibly, and this is an important step," said freshman Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), who had spent weeks urging his former House colleagues to back a "clean" funding bill.
The DHS fight exposed deep fissures between House Republicans, who wanted to take a more aggressive stance, and Senate Republicans, who argued early on that Obama had a stronger hand in the standoff and would ultimately prevail.
Centrist and conservative Republicans also had openly quarreled over the best strategy to combat Obama's immigration moves, with the debate descending into insults and name-calling.
It also highlighted once again the tenuous power Boehner enjoys over his conference.
Conservatives said they weren't surprised Boehner capitulated to Democrats. But they still voiced disappointment that GOP leaders hadn't put up a stronger fight in Congress.
"I believe this is a sad day for America," Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.) said on the House floor during a vigorous debate before the vote. "If we aren't going to fight now, when are we going to fight?"
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Detroit Iron
By Garret Ellison
February 23, 2015 at 8:35 AM, updated February 23, 2015 at 11:02 AM
FRANKFORT, MI -- Sometime in the mid-1890s, a boxcar laden with gold bullion stolen from the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War was allegedly pushed off a ferry into the roiling waters of Lake Michigan during a storm.
Today, it awaits discovery on the lake bottom.
As far as treasure stories go, it's a doozy. But is it believable?
video: http://www.wzzm13.com/videos/news/local/2015/01/22/22187051/
Unfortunately, there's only one way to know for sure whether the story advanced by Muskegon area shipwreck divers Frederick J. Monroe and Kevin Dykstra is anything more than a new entry in the encyclopedia of theories about what became of the fabled Confederate treasury after the war.
Based largely on a deathbed confession relayed to Monroe in 1973, Monroe and Dykstra have spent several years searching the waters off Northern Michigan's Benzie County for the treasure, which they fully expect will be found this summer.
On board with the tale is Frankfort Superintendent Joshua Mills, who is excited by the economic prospects of treasure seekers descending on his coastal town en masse with a modern day version of gold fever.
Less convinced are Civil War historians, who consider the story preposterous.
"It's all a bunch of hogwash," said Rand Bitter, author of a biography about the Union Army officer at the center of Dykstra and Monroe's treasure theory.
One might expect nothing less when it comes to a gold story.
A tale of the tallest order?
The thought of Confederate gold sunk in local waters is an intriguing notion that's sure to fire the kiln of interest among Michiganders. If true, then the answer to one of the country's greatest mysteries has been in our backyard for more than a century.
The story bubbled into the public eye last fall, when Monroe and Dykstra announced the discovery of an unidentified Lake Michigan shipwreck bearing resemblance to Le Griffon, the yet-undiscovered "holy grail" of Great Lakes wrecks.
Amid the ongoing clamor around Le Griffon, the duo's real purpose was almost rendered a footnote. Finding the shipwreck -- which they did in 2011 but held back announcing for several years -- was an accident, they said. The two were actually searching for sunken Civil War gold.
Wait... what?
Their story about how rebel gold found its way into Lake Michigan seems plausible -- as plausible, anyway, as any of the other folklore based on the 150-year-old legend of the Confederate treasury, which vanished under fairly well-known circumstances in 1865.
Jefferson Davis
There's even an established Michigan connection. Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was captured on May 10, 1865 by members of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry near Irwinville, Ga., about a month after the fall of Richmond.
Davis had fled Richmond with the rebels' hard currency reserves. Accounts differ on the exact size and makeup of the treasure, but it's generally thought to have been about $1 million worth of gold, silver and jewelry.
According to historical account, the treasure was gone by the time the cavalry caught up with Davis and his men, who had little money on them.
What happened to the treasure? Monroe and Dykstra have a theory. Here it goes:
A colonel with the Fourth Michigan named Robert Horatio George Minty went back down to Georgia more than a decade after Davis was captured and dug up the hidden gold.
Robert Horatio George Minty
Minty, who retired as a Brigadier General, was wrongfully court-martialed during the war. This, Dykstra and Monroe think, gave him motive to commit treason.
Minty, who worked as a railroad superintendent after the war, somehow managed to get the treasure onto a boxcar headed north for Michigan. His destination: Upper Peninsula copper country, a region with known gold deposits.
To get there, the gold needed to cross Lake Michigan. In 1892, the Ann Arbor Railroad began using coal-powered lake ferries to bypass congested Chicago train yards. From Frankfort, the ferries served ports in Wisconsin and the U.P.
In dire straits, rail cars were sometimes pushed overboard in rough seas.
During one side-scan sonar search of the lake off Frankfort in 2012, Monroe and Dykstra found a coal car on the lake bottom. The two divers consider it a signpost indicating the deathbed confession is accurate and gold is real.
"I believe the boxcar is out there and this spring we'll find it," Dykstra said.
Do the dots connect?
Many dots must connect for Monroe and Dykstra's theory to hold water.
Rand Bitter, a former Ford Motor Co. design cost specialist who self-published an exhaustively researched 2006 book called " Minty and his Cavalry: A History of the Sabre Brigade ," thinks the theory is built on a shaky foundation.
Colonel Minty, Bitter said, was not present when Davis was captured by men led by a subordinate officer, Lt. Col. Benjamin D. Pritchard of Allegan.
"If three tons of gold had been hidden away in a hurry by Prichard and his men, how would Minty have coordinated that from 150 miles away?" Bitter asked. "He wouldn't have even known about it. They had to send a courier with word that Davis had been captured."
Other elements of the Minty connection are suspect, Bitter said, who contends that Minty's postwar railroad employment never put him in the right position to manage a secret boxcar all the way from Georgia to Michigan.
After the war, Minty's first wife, Grace Ann Abbott, was apparently seen in Traverse City with a necklace made from a Confederate gold coin sovereign -- a detail Dykstra and Monroe feel supports their theory.
Here, Bitter and the divers are almost on the same page. The coin necklace was real. Bitter thinks it was most likely given to Minty following Davis' capture. The cavalryman also got Davis' revolver and holsters, which are now on display in a Richmond museum. He never got any reward money for the capture.
But the hardest part for Bitter to reconcile is the family connection. Minty scandalously moved to Indiana in the 1870s and started a second family with his wife Grace's sister, Laura Abbott. Minty essentially became persona non grata with the much of the Abbott family after that.
It's an important detail because Minty's brother-in-law, George Alexander Abbott, was the person who allegedly made the deathbed confession about a boxcar full of gold in Lake Michigan to a friend of Monroe's grandfather.
From depositions taken after Minty's death, Bitter said it's quite clear George Abbott did not care much for Minty after the cavalryman's affair.
"That's supposedly someone who would know all about Minty's gold?" he said. "Interesting he'd have all the details."
Frankfort ready for gold seekers
Bitter and Dykstra have talked, but the divers and their chief theory critic didn't connect before the gold-in-the-lake story hit the news .
If the deathbed confession turns out to be true and gold is found, Dykstra acknowledged the possibility that it may not be from the Confederate treasury. The Minty theory grew out of his early research. Dykstra was drawn to the Civil War angle when that was the only reference to missing gold from the time period he could find on the Internet.
He realizes it's a "long stretch."
Civil War experts aren't the only skeptics. Shipwreck divers around the state are curious, but some question, privately, whether Monroe and Dykstra aren't also angling for something like a reality TV show.
The duo isn't tightly networked with the wider Great Lakes shipwreck diving community by choice, they said.
The two men met about 20 years ago at a wedding. Both have backgrounds as professional photographers. Monroe, 61, of Muskegon, is a scuba instructor who says he graduated from dive school in California in 1972. He taught Dykstra, 51, of Fruitport, to dive a few years ago.
"I've been treasure hunting pretty much my whole life," said Monroe.
The divers have met with Michigan officials, but state archeologist Dean Anderson declined to take a strong position on the veracity of their theory. If gold is found, the state will likely claim it as abandoned material on Michigan bottomland.
"It's not a story I'm familiar with," said Anderson, who called the divers "forthcoming and cooperative," particularly in recent discussions about a planned dive to the possible Le Griffon site this spring or summer.
"I'm not in any position to evaluate what they've had to say" about the gold, he said. "We only learned much detail about it very recently."
More discussions between the divers and the state are possible, but not planned.
In Frankfort, city superintendent Joshua Mills is eager for something to happen.
Monroe and Dykstra have kept Mills in the loop since their initial dives began in 2011. The pair had a hand in helping outfit the Frankfort Fire Department with dive equipment paid for with some local private grants.
They've also done some training sessions with the dive team, said Mills.
If Frankfort gets an influx of treasure-seekers drawn to the gold story, it's best the city be prepared for whatever could happen, said Monroe.
"We're pretty certain that gold will be found," said Monroe. "With all the people who come out, we think there's a good chance it'll be found this summer."
If that happens, Mills wants folks to know there's no monetary incentive in the treasure hunt. The state of Michigan would probably claim the gold, but, assuming there is gold down there, there could be other legal ownership claims advanced depending on the treasure's origin.
"I think preserving the history and putting closure to the legend is something that could be a benefit to all," said Mills. "We'll see."
Elberta and Frankfort piers in 2006. Based largely on a deathbed confession, divers Frederick Monroe and Kevin Dykstra have spent several years searching the waters off Northern Michigan's Benzie County for the famous lost Confederate treasure, which they fully expect will be found this summer.
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/02/confederate_gold_lake_michigan.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=593_1425167356Detroit IronConfederate treasure in Lake Michigan? Despite skeptics, divers pursue fantastic storygold bullion, Confederacy, Civil War, Lake MichiganUkraine, Why the Media War Over Ukraine is a War Against Everyone Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:48:25 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f28_1425155573
omniradarhttp://journal-neo.org/2015/02/28/why-the-media-war-over-ukraine-is-a-war-against-everyone/
28.02.2015
Author: Seth Ferris
The ongoing media war between the United States and the Russian Federation is pretty much official. Even before the first official shots were fired, through the announcements by Andrew Lack, the newly-appointed chief of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), which compared the English Language Russia Today to the Islamic State and Boko Haram, it was being conducted alongside the other concurrent conflicts: the ground war, the sanctions war, and the currency war.
In any sort of conflict opposing sides will have opposing views, and will present whatever suits their purposes and ignore what they don't want people to hear. However, history shows us that there is such a thing a Truth, and if you ignore it it will come back and bite you. Ask any American who has served in Iraq and Syria, or any of the Vietnam veterans who came home vilified for doing their duty when, having seen the situation on the ground, they had no idea why they were there to begin with.
It is therefore in the interests of any conflicting party to base their propaganda on facts which give their actions justification. However, in Ukraine only one side is endeavouring to do this, and regretably it is not the US. All the Western powers have no choice but to go along with another projection of the US world view, despite the fact very few people outside the US believe it has any connection with reality. This is important, when people's lives, and millions of war machine dollars, are involved.
Pot calling the kettle black
The American world view is very simple. It is based on one premise: everyone else has something wrong with them because they are not American. This encourages the US to look for the splinter in everyone else's eye whilst neither seeing the log in its own nor imagining it could exist.
Consequently the US has expectations of different countries which reflect this prejudice. If they have wrong with them what America says they do, they must therefore want to do what America wants to put it right. Maybe these countries have their own ideas about what they want and what is good for them. But America's ideas are superior, so what America wants must be what is good for the world as a whole, there is no need to take any other interest into account.
The US view of Ukraine is as follows: Putin's view of what the new Russia should be is not compatible with the 21st century. His "nostalgia for the years of tsarist or communist conquest" is a utopian and dangerous sympathy out of step with the modern world. Reincorporating or annexing Crimea must therefore be part of an effort to create a buffer zone (East Ukraine, Moldova, Ossetia, Abkhazia and maybe more to come) between Russia and Western sympathizers, because his views are not American, so he must be setting up an anti-American bloc.
As journalist Robert Parry writes, part of the problem is that the neocon propagandists who conduct such wars have been allowed to get away with introducing a fundamental falsehood into the modern American media. The personal has become the political: that is, you don't deal with the larger context of a dispute, you make it all about some easily demonised figure.
Instead of understanding the complexities of Iraq, you focus on the unsavoury Saddam Hussein, claiming that if this un-American figure is doing it, it must be bad. Now everything Russia does is the action of Putin, and therefore morally wrong, because Putin does not do what America wants.
For example, the US is claiming that Russia is guilty of censoring the press, jailing political opponents and descending into brutal dictatorship and isolation. These are things the US would know all about, given its flagrant support for regimes which did such things in many parts of the world, even in Western Europe (think Portugal and Spain 1930s to 1970s), Iran under the Shah, and not least the former Soviet Union (Georgia, Turkmenistan).
If such actions are undertaken by the US or one of its allies they are at least tolerated for the sake of the global interest. If they are associated with the latest hate figure, in this case Putin, they are suddenly discovered to be wrong. The question is: Does it actually benefit anyone to base world affairs, and actions affecting millions of people's lives, on willful lies?
A case study
Some American newspapers are directly controlled by the CIA, in the same way we were always told Soviet journals were controlled by the KGB. One such is the Charleston Mercury from South Carolina. One of the mouthpieces for the official US line on Ukraine is Will Cathcart, its former managing director. Strangely enough, he was also once Media Advisor to the President of Georgia.
According to that paper's website, he is now involved in "business development" in the Black Sea region, working out of Kiev. It goes on to describe how Cathcart "was able to interview Georgian President Saakashvili" (i.e., the person he was advising on the media) "and wrote how President Saakashvili predicted the Russian invasion; it turned out we published just as the Russians attacked our allies, the freedom-loving Georgians. Will ended up moving to Georgia and has retained a network and developed a high degree of expertise in the region. He is now reporting from Kiev, as you will see elsewhere in this issue. It was hard to lose Will at the paper but he still writes stellar features for us."
Before countries make official media statements, they consult their media advisers. Georgia's spin on the 2008 war partly derived from Will Cathcart, who was also working for a paper directly controlled by the CIA. If the American world view was based on reality, this would be a positive thing. As it is based on the concept that everything not American has something wrong with it, and that everyone must want America, what good can come from such relationships?
Bitter lessons learned
It was in fact the 2008 Georgian-Russian conflict over South Ossetia which was the breeding ground for this particular media war. Russia easily prevailed on the battlefield but did not do well in the airwaves, at a period when Senator John McCain needed a PR boost for his presidential campaign and the war in Georgia was just what the doctor ordered.
This drove home to Kremlin insiders how important it was to fight a PR war with highly paid PR companies. This became particularly important when they realised that Georgia's PR victory, which is still being used against Russia, had been achieved by the appropriately-named Patrick Worms.
Worms is head of Aspect, a PR company based in Brussels, whose lucrative contract with poverty-stricken Georgia was brokered by NATO and the EU. Georgia had another company in its employ, Orion Strategies, run by one Randy Scheunemann. He was also an adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign.
This was the coalition of forces facing Russia in 2008, not newspaper editorials, not commentators, not facts. Similar coalitions are deployed against any country which is sufficiently un-American. From the Russian standpoint, this is no different to being surrounded by NATO bases armed with missiles pointed at you because you are not American, and equally deadly.
How did Aspect win the media war for Georgia? James Hunt, another of its spinners, revealed that its strategy was built on exploiting the news media's need for a human angle on coverage, including images for television: "We put human beings in front of the camera. We recognised the need for emotionalism in emotional times, rather than doing things the way the Russians did, which was to keep, if you like, a very robotic, very old fashioned media approach."
Such an approach takes no account of what these people in front of the camera actually say, of course, or whether it is true or not. Indeed, the facts would merely get in the way of creating an emotional message. But it did not stop there. Worms began staging events, and sending SMS messages highlighting which villages would be destroyed, using maps to show foreign journalists that Georgian artillery were aiming exclusively at military targets. All this was a means of disguising Georgia's illegal use of cluster bombs, as documented by the human rights and de-mining groups who recovered the duds.
Since Soviet times there has been a difference in style between Western outlets who report and analyse everything instantly, whether correct or not, and Russian ones which gather the evidence first and then make a report. But the activities of Worms and his friends are another thing altogether. Their aim is to persuade people by any means possible, even blatant falsehoods. They are simply not interested in facts.
It is facts which people have to live with in their daily lives, as anyone pursuing a false idea soon finds. If we accept the concept of "crimes against humanity", what do we call a blatant attempt by the Western powers to replace reality with whatever suits them, when not accepting that reality has wholly negative effects on the lives of millions of people?
Up to date with a bang
The legacy of Worms lives on. A media spin group has been set up in Tbilisi in the wake of the US-led coup in Ukraine, masquerading as a network of Language Exchange Groups and Clubs. Some of those involved were also linked with the Language Exchange Club Kiev during the Putsch there, for instance, Franzisca Von Den Socken, a certain Gabriel, who is in tight with various US funded NGOs, Richard DeLong, a prot'eg'e of notorious former US Ambassador Tefft, Remi Boissonnas, Louisa Whitlock and Greg Golden of Lingua House, a Tbilisi based language school.
Other US-funded media pundits are also being presented as experts on Ukraine, much like Steve "Birmingham is 100% Muslim" Emerson was presented as an expert on terrorism to give him the platform to make that ridiculous claim. They include Mark Mullins, a long term employee of Soros Foundation-funded entities who is closely connected with the former Saakashvili government and the NEO the Liberty Institute, the instrument used to make ideological statements even Saakashvili found too extreme to make himself.
Saakashvili is now being sheltered in Kiev by Poroshenko's government, treated as an "adviser". It is being widely speculated that Saakashvili is about to conduct a military coup to try and regain control of Georgia, and several recent events point in that direction. Poroshenko's Nazi irregulars would be the obvious force to do it, since no one in Georgia will fight for Saakashvili. Are all these connections between these two CIA-backed regimes just coincidence?
In the film A Beautiful Mind Russell Crowe's character is put in a mental institution for believing in unreal things and living his life accordingly. We are left to wonder why, when the US propaganda machine is designed to make us all do exactly that every day of our lives - if we survive the bullets also used to create that situation.
Seth Ferris, investigative journalist and political scientist, expert on Middle Eastern affairs, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f28_1425155573omniradarUkraine, Why the Media War Over Ukraine is a War Against Everyone Ukraine, Fk Nuland, Kagan, CIA, Pyatt, Yats, Rats, Chocolate, MI5 Jihadi John, pmsl, ROTHSCHILD,Inbreds, Steins,Baby Echidna PuggleThu, 26 Feb 2015 18:23:43 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=879_1424992955
plokijuWiki: Echidnas /http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=879_1424992955plokijuBaby Echidna PuggleEchidna Puggle at Taronga ZooGMO-, Hormon enriched- and ionised food is causeing cancer. Really?Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:26:49 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1424949621
GermanNewsWell thats what all eco freaks are telling you. But what does the statistic say about that? Lets compare the USA and Germany to have two countries at the same technological level wich both have on avarage an equal good health care system.
In the USA a big amount of food is made of crops and lots of other plants wich are genetically altered. From some sorts of processed foods 90% of them including genetically altered bio material. In germany the amount that kind of food is close to zero.
The sterilizeing of food by ionisation is a common thing in the USA. After a big demonizing campaign in the 90s by the green party such kind of food is nearby not sold in germany because nobody would by it.
Using hormons for breeding cattle is allowed and widly used in the USA. In germany completly forbidden. Its also forbidden to import such meat.
While in the US the organic food movement started lately to spread from hipsters and rich people into the public mind, its in germany since the 70s like a permanently growing crazy religion for everyone. Except of the poor they eat trash like in any other country too. (Basically that organic food movement was started around 1935 by the nazis. People just forgot that.)
Influences from the environment like unhealthy construction materials wich may cause cancer or regions where the ground is encriched with carcinogen poisens are in germany close to zero. The radiation exposure country wide is by the way on avarage the same for both countries.
So if the tree huggers and food health warners would be right, germany should be a country with a really small amount of people dying of cancer and in the USA cancer should be like a mass epedemic wich kills every second person.
There is only one problem with all of that. The statistics about death by cancer says the absolut opposit.
Country
Dying of cancer per 100.000 citicens (Age 30-70)
Date
Rank
In numbers
Mongolei 1284
105% 2008-
Ungarn 2262
96% 2008-
Armenien 3239
87% 2008-
Serbien 4236
86% 2008-
Nauru 5231
84% 2008-
Kasachstan 6221
80% 2008-
Polen 7219
79% 2008-
Grenada 8211
76% 2008-
Moldawien 9204
73% 2008-
Litauen 9204
73% 2008-
Kroatien 11203
73% 2008-
Rum"anien 12202
72% 2008-
Lettland 12202
72% 2008-
Slowakei 14200
71% 2008-
Seychellen 15199
71% 2008-
Belarus (Weissrussland) 16198
71% 2008-
Uruguay 16198
71% 2008-
Kirgisistan 18197
70% 2008-
Bulgarien 19196
70% 2008-
S"udafrika 20193
69% 2008-
Tschechische Republik 21191
68% 2008-
Uganda 21191
68% 2008-
Aserbaidschan 23188
67% 2008-
Tuvalu 23188
67% 2008-
Gambia 25183
65% 2008-
Bangladesch 25183
65% 2008-
Libanon 25183
65% 2008-
Estland 28181
64% 2008-
Russische F"oderation 29180
63% 2008-
China 30179
63% 2008-
Nepal 31178
63% 2008-
Kenia 31178
63% 2008-
Guinea 33177
62% 2008-
Mazedonien 33177
62% 2008-
Slowenien 35176
62% 2008-
Laos 36173
61% 2008-
Turkmenistan 37172
60% 2008-
Bhutan 38171
60% 2008-
Mali 38171
60% 2008-
D"anemark 40170
59% 2008-
Ukraine 40170
59% 2008-
Montenegro 40170
59% 2008-
Frankreich 43169
59% 2008-
S~ao Tom'e und Pr'incipe 43169
59% 2008-
Vietnam 45168
59% 2008-
Papua-Neuguinea 45168
59% 2008-
Albanien 45168
59% 2008-
Honduras 48166
58% 2008-
Guinea-Bissau 48166
58% 2008-
Sambia 48166
58% 2008-
Marshallinseln 48166
58% 2008-
Niederlande 52165
57% 2008-
Argentinien 52165
57% 2008-
Indonesien 52165
57% 2008-
Antigua und Barbuda 55164
57% 2008-
T"urkei 56163
57% 2008-
Malawi 56163
57% 2008-
Burma 58162
56% 2008-
Dominica 59161
56% 2008-
Burundi 59161
56% 2008-
Benin 59161
56% 2008-
Portugal 59161
56% 2008-
Kuba 63159
55% 2008-
Ruanda 64158
55% 2008-
Simbabwe 65157
54% 2008-
Kambodscha 66156
54% 2008-
Jamaika 67155
53% 2008-
St. Kitts und Nevis 68154
53% 2008-
Madagaskar 68154
53% 2008-
Jordanien 70153
53% 2008-
Vanuatu 71152
52% 2008-
Senegal 71152
52% 2008-
Pakistan 71152
52% 2008-
Ghana 74151
52% 2008-
Belgien 74151
52% 2008-
Deutschland
Germany76150
51% 2008-
Fidschi 76150
51% 2008-
Somalia 76150
51% 2008-
Irland 76150
51% 2008-
Liberia 80149
51% 2008-
Nigeria 81148
51% 2008-
Mauretanien 82147
50% 2008-
Guatemala 83146
50% 2008-
Kap Verde 84144
49% 2008-
Grossbritannien 84144
49% 2008-
Georgien 86143
49% 2008-
Burkina Faso 86143
49% 2008-
USA 86143
49% 2008-
Togo 86143
49% 2008-
Mosambik 86143
49% 2008-
Osttimor 91141
48% 2008-
St. Vincent und die Grenadinen 91141
48% 2008-
St. Lucia 91141
48% 2008-
Malaysia 91141
48% 2008-
Komoren 95140
47% 2008-
Barbados 95140
47% 2008-
"Osterreich 95140
47% 2008-
Spanien 95140
47% 2008-
Libyen 95140
47% 2008-
Brasilien 100139
47% 2008-
El Salvador 101138
47% 2008-
Kongo, Demokratische Republik 101138
47% 2008-
Kanada 101138
47% 2008-
Norwegen 101138
47% 2008-
Luxemburg 101138
47% 2008-
Griechenland 106137
46% 2008-
Bosnien und Herzegowina 106137
46% 2008-
Neuseeland 106137
46% 2008-
Thailand 109136
46% 2008-
Paraguay 110135
45% 2008-
Philippinen 111134
45% 2008-
Irak 111134
45% 2008-
Guyana 113133
45% 2008-
Sierra Leone 113133
45% 2008-
Korea, S"ud 113133
45% 2008-
"Athiopien 116132
44% 2008-
Monaco 116132
44% 2008-
Italien 116132
44% 2008-
Palau 119131
44% 2008-
Afghanistan 119131
44% 2008-
"Agypten 121130
43% 2008-
Tschad 121130
43% 2008-
Sri Lanka 121130
43% 2008-
Peru 121130
43% 2008-
Angola 121130
43% 2008-
Niger 126129
43% 2008-
Trinidad und Tobago 127128
43% 2008-
Tunesien 128127
42% 2008-
Schweiz 128127
42% 2008-
Marokko 128127
42% 2008-
Algerien 128127
42% 2008-
Dominikanische Republik 132126
42% 2008-
Dschibuti 132126
42% 2008-
Bahamas 132126
42% 2008-
Tadschikistan 132126
42% 2008-
Singapur 132126
42% 2008-
Andorra 132126
42% 2008-
Ecuador 138125
41% 2008-
Chile 138125
41% 2008-
Belize 138125
41% 2008-
Israel 138125
41% 2008-
Australien 138125
41% 2008-
Salomonen 143124
41% 2008-
Nicaragua 143124
41% 2008-
Malta 145123
41% 2008-
Kamerun 146122
40% 2008-
Zentralafrikanische Republik 147121
40% 2008-
Schweden 147121
40% 2008-
Island 147121
40% 2008-
"Aquatorialguinea 150120
39% 2008-
Korea, Nord 150120
39% 2008-
Eritrea 152119
39% 2008-
Japan 152119
39% 2008-
Oman 154118
39% 2008-
Gabun 155117
38% 2008-
Swasiland 155117
38% 2008-
Finnland 157113
37% 2008-
Kongo, Rpublik 157113
37% 2008-
Usbekistan 157113
37% 2008-
Tansania 157113
37% 2008-
Kolumbien 161112
36% 2008-
Jemen 161112
36% 2008-
Venezuela 161112
36% 2008-
Iran 164111
36% 2008-
Mikronesien 165110
35% 2008-
Mauritius 165110
35% 2008-
Panama 167109
35% 2008-
Lesotho 167109
35% 2008-
San Marino 169108
35% 2008-
Indien 169108
35% 2008-
Costa Rica 171107
34% 2008-
Brunei 171107
34% 2008-
Bolivien 173105
33% 2008-
Tonga 173105
33% 2008-
C^ote d'Ivoire 175104
33% 2008-
Suriname 176102
32% 2008-
Sudan 177100
31% 2008-
Mexiko 17894
29% 2008-
Katar 17993
29% 2008-
Niue 17993
29% 2008-
Haiti 18189
27% 2008-
Saudi-Arabien 18281
24% 2008-
Kuwait 18281
24% 2008-
Vereinigte Arabische Emirate 18478
23% 2008-
Samoa 18577
22% 2008-
Zypern 18675
21% 2008-
Syrien 18675
21% 2008-
Bahrain 18873
21% 2008-
Namibia 18873
21% 2008-
Kiribati 19068
19% 2008-
Botswana 19166
18% 2008-
Cookinseln 19263
17% 2008-
Malediven 19359
15% 2008-
And here is a litte fun fact for the vegetarians and vegans. Did you know that you have a 30% higher risk of getting bowel cancer if you are a vegetarian over a longer time? True story.
( Do not be confused about that in swaziland and equal the people have less cancer then in modern countries. That just means that they kill each other, die of other plaques or witchcraft before they even get the chance to develope cancer.)http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e08_1424949621GermanNewsGMO-, Hormon enriched- and ionised food is causeing cancer. Really?gmo, hormon, foodRobot cuttlefish ready for underwater actionWed, 18 Feb 2015 10:00:12 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=172_1424271602
EuronewsSepios, a four-finned, omnidirectional robot built by students at ETH Zurich, could inspire a new generation of eco-friendly, aquatic androids.
Based loosely on an ocean cuttlefish, its four fins each contain nine rays, all with a 270-degree range of motion.
The device has also been fitted with several controls for distance and altitude and an underwater video camera.
Co-designer Alessandro Schappi explains how the device works underwater.
"We are using this space mouse and to move around in six degrees of freedom in space. So if we want to dive down we need the two fins on the side to flap up and do a standing wave to dive down. So we just press the space mouse down and as you can see we are diving down. To dive up the opposite, just press it up and we are swimming up. If you want to dive to the front, we can push the space mouse to the front and here you see four waves which give a propulsion to the front. To go back exactly the same."
By generating thrust with the fins, a variety of acrobatic motions such as barrel rolls are possible. The latex fins are immune to underwater obstacles, making Sepios well-suited to observing and filming marine life.
It took a bit of time to get used to steering the robot underwater, said co-designer Martin Moller.
"When we went to the sea of France we were able to cross sea grass without entangling and we could film some fish with our onboard webcam and project that via a livestream to our laptop and use that for steering as well."
The two students insist that Sepios's strength lies not in its speed - up to four metres per second - but its agility.
Tests showed that one one charge of its battery pack allowed 90 minutes of use, descending to a maximum of 10 metres.
They hope Sepios could be used in underwater pipeline, as well as sealife and fauna research.
The pair say they also plan to develop further aquatic robots.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=172_1424271602EuronewsRobot cuttlefish ready for underwater actionEuronewsUN Envoy: Assad 'part of the solution' in SyriaFri, 13 Feb 2015 10:33:08 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f9_1423841201
Dadori
The U.N. envoy for Syria said on Friday that President Bashar al-Assad must be part of the solution for easing violence in Syria, and he would continue discussions with him after talks in Damascus earlier this week.
In Vienna for talks with Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, de Mistura said the government still controlled a large part of Syria, and that Assad was "part of the solution for the reduction of the violence", clarifying an earlier remark at a news conference that Assad was part of "the solution."
The United States is among Western powers that say Assad's violent response to what began as a peaceful pro-democracy movement has disqualified him to lead Syria, although Washington is at the same time leading a coalition of countries bombing the Islamist militants who now dominate the rebellion against Assad.
The envoy, Staffan de Mistura, is struggling to advance a proposal that would freeze fighting in the northern city of Aleppo - one of the subjects he has said he had discussed with Assad.
In a poll on Thursday, 53 percent of residents in opposition-held areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo -- which has seen some of the country's worst violence since July 2012 -- said they favoured de Mistura's October proposal of a "freeze" in fighting.
But a great majority also said they were sceptical that a truce would hold.
The Syrian conflict began as peaceful protests in March 2011, before descending into war that has since killed more than 210,000 people, with regime troops shelling rebel-held areas almost daily.
Several rounds of talks have ended in failure.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f9_1423841201DadoriUN Envoy: Assad 'part of the solution' in SyriaSyria SAA FSA U.N MisturaAleppo. Barrel bomb attack targets Sakhour districtFri, 06 Feb 2015 09:33:50 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ca_1423233121
120_percentGood footage of a descending bomb unleashed upon Aleppo today, 2/6/2015.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0ca_1423233121120_percentAleppo. Barrel bomb attack targets Sakhour districtsakhour, district, aleppo, syria, saa, syaf, syaaf, saf, barrel, bomb, helicopter, air, raid, 2015<span class="highlight">Descending</span> TranscendenceWed, 07 Jan 2015 09:34:06 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f3_1420640602
VelcroToiletPaperA philosophical journey by VTP. Nothing special in it, only yourself. Find a relaxing and cozy spot as you fly through the clouds/reality/alternate world/matrix,etc. Perhaps something changes?
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Descending Transcendence
Your projection is fading such illusions do not last Let go of your reverie ephemerality will grasp
glinting through time's tempest
The projector speaks:
You must return, Anima! Anima!
New grounds emerge
Thereunder you must rest.
-VTPhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f3_1420640602VelcroToiletPaper<span class="highlight">Descending</span> TranscendenceDescending, Transcendence, Philosophy, VTP, sky, reality, matrix, chillout France becoming Balkanized - <span class="highlight">Descending</span> into Tribalism Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:53:42 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98f_1420858147
The G-ManMuslim Cancers growing within French society.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98f_1420858147The G-ManFrance becoming Balkanized - <span class="highlight">Descending</span> into Tribalism Native, White, French, under, Attack, in, Muslim, Areas,India - Agni 5 missile with 5000 km range tested successfully!Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:26:49 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efd_1422721496
LiveLeakerINDIAThe missile is expected to be inducted into service in a year after a few more canister trials. Marking another technological milestone in the country's missile programme, the maiden canister-based trial of India's most potent strategic missile, Agni-V was successfully carried out for its full range of more than 5,000 km from the Wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on Saturday.
A DRDO missile technologist who was associated with the launch described it as a grand success and said it was a perfect launch. Another missile technologist said it would be the footprint for future configuration of Agni-V.
The missile sealed in a canister and mounted on a TATRA track was launched in its final deliverable configuration at 8.10 am. As soon as the auto-launch command was given, the 17-metre-long Agni-V lifted off majestically leaving a trail of orange flames and leapt into a sunny sky after the gas generator at the bottom of the canister gave it a forceful thrust.
Within moments after its ejection and upon reaching a height of around 30 metres, the first stage got ignited and separated. As it reached a height of more than 500 km and began descending rapidly, the subsequent two stages also got decoupled with clockwork precision and the missile's nose cone carrying the dummy payload withstood searing temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees Celsius and impacted near the pre-designated point in the Indian Ocean after a flight of about 20 minutes.
The 17-metre-long, thee-stage solid-fuelled missile, developed indigenously by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), is expected to boost India's nuclear deterrence capability along with other strategic missiles in Agni series. Agni-V is capable of delivering a 1.1 nuclear warhead over a distance of 5,000 km and the range of missile can cover most parts of China and Europe.
A network of radars, electro-optical tracking systems and telemetry stations, besides two ships stationed near the impact point monitored the health of the missile during its flight and recorded the terminal event.
This was the third successful flight test of the Inter- Continental Ballistic Missile and the first canister trial.
The missile is expected to be inducted into service in a year after a few more canister trials.
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister Avinash Chander, the architect of Agni-V, who will be relinquishing office on Saturday, was present along with other top DRDO missile technologists, including Director-General of Missiles and Strategic Systems, Dr.V.G.Sekaran and Research Centre Imarat Director, G. Satheesh Reddy.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=efd_1422721496LiveLeakerINDIAIndia - Agni 5 missile with 5000 km range tested successfully!india, missile, agni, 5, armed, forces, defence, defenseAmazing Shrapnel Explosion! (Different Angle of Falcon 9 Crash)Fri, 30 Jan 2015 16:43:18 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b08_1422653366
PaleSalopeThe brief video shows the stage descending under rocket power at an angle, drifting to one side of the platform before crashing and exploding.
Had someone been standing nearby, this might have been feature worthy!
A Falcon 9 first stage explodes on the deck of SpaceX's landing ship during an attempted landing Jan. 10.
The Falcon 9 rocket had successfully launched the cargo capsule Dragon which was on a mission to deliver goods to the International Space Station. Falcon 9 was on its way back to Earth and tried to make a controlled return. Mr Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, a company which manufactures and launches rockets and spacecraft, described the crash landing as "...close
but no cigar. Bodes well for the future tho'. Ship (in orbit) itself is fine".http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b08_1422653366PaleSalopeAmazing Shrapnel Explosion! (Different Angle of Falcon 9 Crash)Explosion, Shrapnel, Rocket, Crash, Failure, Launch, Falcon